Hermann Nitsch solo exhibition at Marc Strauss (299 Grand Street New York) September 9 To October 15, 2017. There is an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, September 9. This is the artist's second solo exhibition by the Viennese artist.

Nitsch, born in Vienna, is a co-founder of the Viennese Actionist Movement and creator of Das Origien Mysterien Theater. His work combines theater, drawing, painting, ,music, printmaking and philosophy in the work. He has been performing "painting actions" since 1960. These pieces are part of his 75tj action. He lives and works at Prinzendorf Castle in Lower Austria.

Station 16 Gallery (Montreal) offers print by stencil artists Joe Iurato and Logan Hicks. The collaborative print, Sight of the Sea, is hand sprayed by both artists and is based on a mural the two created for the Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. Supplies are limited so buy a copy before they are gone.

NADA New York has a new location, Skylight Clarkson Square (550 Washington Street), for 2018. The fair takes place March 8-11. The fair's mission to support and cultivate new voices in contemporary art now has a 60,000 square foot venue to pursue that goal. The area has three separate studios.

Superfine! The Fair returns to Miami and New York while adding art shows in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

The Miami Fair at 56 N. 29th St from December 6 to 10, 2017 includes a midnight vernissage from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 6. The fair will include 46 exhibitors (32 solo artists and 14 galleries) from all over the world. There will be 800 original works. In line with the fair's notion of "art for all," pieces range in price from $200 to $10,000.

The New York version will be during Frieze week (May, 2018). The D.C. fair will take place in the Dupont neighborhood in October 2018. The Los Angeles version will appear in January, 2019.

The #notnormal hashtag appeared on Twitter at the onset of the Trump era. The work in this exhibit goes deeper than Trump, tracing the nations history of fear, racism, socio-economic disparity and intolerance in our culture and the unease these cause.

The exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures and installation from the L.A-base artist (born in Chicago). This is her third exhibition with Ross-Ho. Some of the pieces are works on paper and others are large, fabricated pieces.

The exhibition is a room six fabric/ceramic installation. Blue tulle dresses are all over the gallery walls, shoulder to shoulder in various positions. This is an exhibition that is a morality play and meditation on power and submission.

Bill Rock's BatPig: Character Development Phase at Civilian Art Projects (4718 14th Street NW, Washington DC). The show runs for one week only, August 2 To 5, 2017. There will be an opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday August 2 and an artist talk at 3 p.m. Saturday, August 5. The artist will be on hand most days.

This exhibit is Rock's second with the gallery. He assembles a group of characters revolving around the hero in training, BatPig. The story of BatPig is one of becoming a "hero" (depending on your definition of the term) in a time of political and social discontent. Pieces shown are mixed media collage on canvas--acrylic, marker, watercolor, pencil, pasten, pre-printed paper and printing ink.

Rock has a BA in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College. He has taught courses at Georgetown and the Smithsonian (and others).

This show, the first of the 2017-18 season features works on paper and paintings by Baum. The exhibition includes two new bodies of work that use the seven hues of the rainbow as a starting point. Seven monumental paintings on unstretched canvas are a focal point of the show.

One of the best parts of the extensive ACLU piece is this; "Imagine if the phone company could mess with your calls — through bad connections or frequent dropped calls — when you tried to order pizza from Domino's, because Pizza Hut is paying them."

That is it in a nutshell...You think you get spied on and hit with ads now?....If this keeps moving along? You haven't seen a thing yet..

Look up your Senators and Representatives and contact them. Call the FCC at 1-888-CALL FCC (225-5322).